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Defining Sentience

Lemoine is entitled to his religious beliefs. But religious conviction does not turn what is in reality a highly sophisticated chatbot into a sentient being. Sentience is one of those concepts the meaning of which we can intuitively grasp but is difficult to formulate in scientific terms. It is often conflated with similarly ill-defined concepts such as consciousness, self-consciousness, self-awareness and intelligence. The cognitive scientist Gary Marcus describes sentience as being “aware of yourself in the world”. LaMDA, he adds, “simply isn’t”.

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“An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.” - Thomas A. Edison

“And humans said ‘Let us make AI in our image, after our likeness’ […] So humans created AI in their own image, in the image of humans created they it.” Sounds familiar? Replace “humans” with “God” and “AI” with “man” and you have the Bible (Genesis 1:26).

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